700,000,000 6.90% Senior Notes due 2019 $300,000,000 7.85% Senior Notes due 2039 REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT Dated as of February 13, 2009 by and among NEWS AMERICA INCORPORATED, NEWS CORPORATION and as Initial PurchaserRegistration Rights Agreement • May 7th, 2009 • News Corp • Newspapers: publishing or publishing & printing • New York
This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2009, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchaser (the “Purchase Agreement”), which provides for, among other things, the sale by the Issuer to the Initial Purchaser of (i) an aggregate of $700,000,000 principal amount of the Issuer’s 6.90% Senior Notes Due 2019 (the “6.90% Senior Notes”) and (ii) an aggregate of $300,000,000 principal amount of the Issuer’s 7.85% Senior Notes Due 2039 (the “7.85% Senior Notes” and, together with the 6.90% Senior Notes, the “Securities”). In order to induce the Initial Purchaser to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Issuer has agreed to provide to the Initial Purchaser and its direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.
